Re: Whitehead of Oldham

Are you still looking for Whiteheads from Waterhead? My g g grandmother was Elizabeth W, she was living at Waterhead Mill in 1851 when my g grandfather George Eli W was born. Any information would be gratefully recieved.

Bob Whitehead

Re: Whitehead of Oldham

I am helping my friend Roger Whitehead research his family tree. His grandfather was Fred Whitehead (b1886) the 3rd son of George Eli Whitehead. George Eli's mother was Elizabeth Whitehead (suggesting an illegitimate birth) who later (1860) married Sidney Schofield, by whom she had 2 children, Matthew & John. George E also had a sister, Mary, bc 1853. In the '61 & '71 censuses, both George & Mary use the surname Schofield, although on later censuses he reverts to just Whitehead. 2 possibilities spring to mind:

1. Sidney Schofield was George & Mary's father, but as he was already married (to Mally Glazebrook) he could not marry Elizabeth2. Sidney was not their father, merely adopting them on his marriage to their mother.

I'm not sure which of these hypotheses (if either) to accept, but I think George must have been fond of his (?step)father as he named his youngest son Sidney.

Perhaps if you tell me from which of George's children you are descended I can put you in touch with Roger.

Re: Whitehead of Oldham

Dear Carolyn,Thank you for your speedy reply. We are certainly looking at the same family and your information has opened a deadend for me.It would appear that Roger and I are related. How I fit in is this.My father was Harry W born in Oldham in 1920.His father was Frank W 5th child of George Eli W born in Oldham 1891.According to my records George Eli had 6 children and that Fred W had 3 children Edith, May and Eric, so is Eric, Roger's father? If so I met Eric when I was a child.

Re: Whitehead of Oldham

I have a relation born Minnie Eliza Burton in 1878 in Warrington. She married 3 times. The last being a Whitehead. Her previous marriages were Belk & Grimshaw. Apparently all husbands were exceedingly rich. She had no children. She was an accomplished artist & had been a student of the artist Sir Luke Fildes. Would Whitehead have been a cotton mill owner perhaps if he had pots of money?